[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2014-02-23 Thread Simon Reed
Does this bug still exist? The recent reviews (2013) for Sound Juicer complain about the poor quality. presumably because of this bug. (If bug it is. Having read all of the above I now cannot tell what it is.) On trying to decide on CD ripping software to produce MP3s to run under Xubuntu

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2014-02-23 Thread Phillip Susi
It looks like this was fixed upstream years ago. ** Changed in: sound-juicer (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 Title: Sound

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2014-02-23 Thread Gotit
@Simon I have tried Sound Juicer 3.4.0 and it no longer provides a way to adjust MP3 ripping parameters, at least not via the GUI. Currently I'm using Asunder 2.1 because my wife thinks it provides a richer sounding rip than Rubyripper 0.6.2. Both Asunder and Rubyripper provide control over the

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2011-02-27 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: sound-juicer Status: Unknown = Invalid ** Changed in: sound-juicer Importance: Unknown = High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 Title: Sound Juicer -

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-12 Thread Bruce R
After further investigation with LiveCD sessions of Ubuntu 9.04, 9,10, 10.04 and 10.10 I can report that it's the introduction of Ubuntu's Software Center and its poor handling of essential dependencies etcetera that has sabotaged the addition of Ubuntu Restricted Extras and Sound Juicer (aka

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-11 Thread Bruce R
Profuse apologies everyone, but I have just discovered that Sound Juicer MP3 ripping simply doesn't work for Ubuntu 10.10 or Ubuntu.10.04, only for LinuxMint 7, 8 and 9 and Ubuntu 9.04, leaving Ubuntu 9.10 to be investigated, where I suspect that in Ubuntu 'it ain't broke so let's fix it' -

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-03 Thread FiloSottile
Current Maverick CD quality is (installing restricted-extras and sound-juicer) audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lamemp3enc name=enc target=0 quality=6 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux Definitively not CD quality. Developers need to be advised to change profiles to KennoVO's ones: CD Quality

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-03 Thread Bruce R
@FiloSottle - thank you for yet another polite, considerate reply, but perhaps that's not clear enough ? - Original Message - From: FiloSottile To: bm007a0...@blueyonder.co.uk Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 3:22 PM Subject: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-03 Thread Bruce R
You know an awful lot of nonsense gets dogmatically said on the topic of sound digitisation and this and other related Bug Reports have been no exception to that rule. Ignoring the inflammatory, not to say ignorant nature of some remarks, yet not yielding to rude bully-boy tactics, I will just

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-02 Thread Bruce R
Some afterthoughts. In case it's not been clear, I am not interested in scoring 'brownie points' for 'being smart', only in obtaining a 'CD Quality' profile that consistently works for friends and other users, leaving 'B-cubed' to other folk, but so far I have not seen any meaningful definition

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-02 Thread Bruce R
Stop PRESS - there's something weird going on. Although the Maverick RC Live CD produces different sounding results with the KennoVO and BruceR profiles, they are both OGG files, rather than MP3 files, whereas in Mint-9 they are, as expected, both MP3 files, so there would appear to be a lot more

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-02 Thread Bruce R
Indeed, Sound Juicer's MP3 capability has been completely removed from the Ubuntu repository ! Talk about cockups ! -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-02 Thread Bruce R
Weirder and weirder. Reinstalling the packages didn't get around what has proved to be my cockup, but a completely fresh distribution installation restored Sound Juicer complete with an MP3 capability. After attending an eye operation follow-up appointment, I must see if I can repeat the cockup,

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-01 Thread KennoVO
Ah, so you mean the new parameters are poorly documented??? BTW, xingmux only adds a header, it doesn't touch or affect the audio in any way: http://www.gstreamer.net/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-ugly-plugins/html/gst-plugins-ugly-plugins-xingmux.html It would be clearer and technically

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce R
Yes, although the industry-wide lack of configuration control means that keeping track of coding changes is a difficult and thankless task, not made any easier if the coding is poorly structured or commented in the first place. In my own case, cataract progression hasn't made reading 'available'

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-29 Thread Brian Murray
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[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-29 Thread Bruce R
I see that 'if something can possibly be misinterpreted (or misquoted) it wil bel' applies again. By 'new parameters lacking definition' I was referring to technical definition, not subjective audio clarity. Meanwhile, posting this from a Live 'daily Maverick DVD' (28-Sep-2010) session, I can

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread Bruce R
KennoVO - trying to respond in a less inflammatory style, your attached links made interesting reading, effectively discussing the absence of the settings used in my/other amended profiles for CD QualityMP3 before addressing the proposed use of xingmux, as then briefly revealed to the world in the

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread Bruce R
Apologies, only one attachment accepted, so single, three-page PDF file now attached. ** Attachment added: Three Page PDF file https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sound-juicer/+bug/195483/+attachment/1647665/+files/ReVisited%20MP3tests.pdf -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gnome-media Status: Unknown = Fix Released ** Changed in: gnome-media Importance: Unknown = High -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 195483] RE: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread FiloSottile
Ok, now these opinions about differences between results or different testing tools are silmply useless. Here we are searching for the cause of the bug and for the best solution to it. The cause was a buggy/misused gstramer plugin lame. Now developers rolled out lamemp3enc, a better interface to

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread Bruce R
Long ago, when my hearing was a lot keener, Xing encoding in AudioCatalyst markedly improved upon Frauhofer encoding in AudioGrabber and was faster, so using a new implementation of what was a non-free product in Sound Juicer may provide a better result. I am puzzled at Ubuntu's discarding it

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread KennoVO
- This is not about bit rate, this is about quality. Getting a higher bit rate does not automatically equal getting a higher quality. In fact, botching the psychoacoustics model with a load of settings is a good recipe to get similar or higher bit rates but a lower quality. - For assessing

[Bug 195483] RE: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread FiloSottile
Definitively in line with kenovo's conclusions. They are well documented and based upon solid facts and data. Also defaults seems good. What's the next step to get the bug solved? -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread Bruce R
You know, I can remember the same sort of sweeping, dismissive statements being made when CDaudio sampling rates, A-D quantization and coding laws were discussed, with audiophiles being disappointed that a higher sampling rate, number of levels or a better coding law were not chosen. At the

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread KennoVO
I attached a patch to be applied to /usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome- audio-profiles.schemas What's the next step to get the bug solved? The next step is to get this patch into Maverick. In an ideal world, gnome-media should adopt it, then Ubuntu should simply pull it in from the upstream repo's.

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-28 Thread KennoVO
I also submitted a patch upstream which processes the file gnome-audio-profiles.schemas.in.in , from which gnome-audio-profiles.schemas is generated at compile time. The package maintainer is free to choose whichever patch they find most convenient to use. ;)

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-27 Thread Bruce R
Upon reflection I think I see where your confusion arises, KennoVO. Although the GStreamer lamemp3enc is what is invoked by the default and by modified profiles, it still needs instructing using original lame commands, which is why, if you want to try different settings, you need to have the

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-27 Thread KennoVO
The gstreamer bug is fixed but the implementation of this fix depends on sound juicer - updated remote watch accordingly. ** Changed in: sound-juicer Importance: Critical = Unknown ** Changed in: sound-juicer Status: Fix Released = Unknown ** Changed in: sound-juicer Remote watch:

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-27 Thread KennoVO
BruceR, the things you're saying are simply not true. This is complex business and I can understand it confuses you, but please don't make stuff up. Browse Gnome Bugzilla (links at the end of this post). Look at the source code. Encode the same sample with gstreamer and with standalone LAME and do

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-27 Thread KennoVO
** Also affects: gnome-media via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619642 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-26 Thread Bruce R
It's taken over a year for me to obtain a cataract operation, but I can now see well enough to add another response to this Sound-Juicer problem saga. When I first researched modifying Sound Juicer (aka Audio CD Extractor) back in LinuxMint-4 and Ubuntu 7.10 days, I downloaded and printed out

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-26 Thread KennoVO
Bruce R, please read all the posts carefully. The lame element is known to be broken, and has been superseded by lamemp3enc. Stop encouraging people to use the lame element. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494528 (FYI, Gabriel Bouvigne is one of the core LAME developers). I did

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-26 Thread Bruce R
KennonVO - I think that you will find that my settings do in fact use the GStreamer lamemp3enc and NOT what you call 'broken lame', which can still be installed and used or mis-used by other ripping tools, yet which I have not recommended as misquoted by you, whilst the xing encoder is yet another

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-25 Thread KennoVO
OK, this might be getting confusing. Just a summary for people who are new to this bug, and some suggestions for future directions: - People initially filed this as a sound-juicer bug, while *at that time*, it was actually a gstreamer bug; the lame element, which was responsible for encoding

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-15 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gstreamer Importance: Unknown = Critical ** Changed in: sound-juicer Importance: Unknown = Critical -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-09-02 Thread FiloSottile
For me (Ubuntu 9.10) there isn't a REAL bug. Simply GStreamer Pipeline is erroneous. Using the info from gst-inspect-0.10 lamemp3enc (see attachment) and the string from Maverick Alpha is simple to get a string that does what we want: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! ... ! xingmux !

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-08-06 Thread Bruce R
Wow, just updating from a LiveDVD session of Maverick Alpha3 to let folk know that, after adding sound-juicer and ubuntu-restricted-extras, 'Audio CD Extractor', aka Sound Juicer's default Quality MP3 profile is now audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lamemp3enc name=enc target=0 quality=6

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-07-24 Thread Bruce R
Sorry to be slow to add this comment folks, but it looks as if my original Sound Juicer recommendations haven't been strictly followed, the most common mistake being to insert 'vbr=3' instead of just 'vbr=4' in editing the profile, which de-selects LAME's new VBR algorithm instead of selecting

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-07-12 Thread Bruce R
@Gotit Puzzling - I will try to investigate further. Meanwhile, for your information, the attached picture is from Ubuntu 8.04 era analysis of Sound Juicer encoding results for encoding of 'Jupiter' from Holst's Planet suite. ** Attachment added: HeronSoundJuicer.jpg

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-07-12 Thread Bruce R
Fascinating ! Re-reading the thread I see that folk are using different analysis tools or players to decide what the results are, rather than simply listening to the results with their chosen player. Such players and tools produce different, sometimes highly misleading reports, such as just

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-07-12 Thread Cliff Hall
The trouble with the misleading reporting by apps theory is that the apps report expected values correctly when tracks are ripped using Ruby Ripper or Grip. Seems to point the finger at g-streamer? On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Bruce R 195...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Fascinating !

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-07-12 Thread Bruce R
Grip never used to work at all well, which is why I guess that it's no longer in the current repository. I don't know about Ruby Ripper, which I gather needs creating from source, never a certain outcome process with Ubuntu, success varying between versions. Meanwhlie, if you are into

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-07-11 Thread Bruce R
It's nice to be able to offer a solution for a change. The fault lies not with GStreamer, but with a failure to provide the wrong command string or 'profile' for LAME to execute. For the CD Quality MP3 Profile, Edit it to read as follows : audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-07-11 Thread Bruce R
Sorry, Second sentence should read : The fault lies not with GStreamer, but with a failure to provide the right command string or 'profile' for LAME to execute. -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-07-11 Thread Bruce R
Sorry guys, some more information. Having just today re-checked it out, I can advise that for Ubuntu and LinuxMint, you also need gstreamer LAME plugins etc installed, most easily achieved by adding ubuntu-restricted-extras, which I am in the habit of always doing, if only to get MicroSoft Core

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-07-11 Thread Gotit
@Bruce R My experience is that making changes in Sound Juicer's output format doesn't make any difference in the resulting mp3 quality. I used your setting above and then modified it to have vbr-quality=0 and extracted the same trac off the same CD, both resulting files report the bitrate of

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-01-12 Thread Scott Bronson
The Ubuntu project is far too casual about this data loss bug! If it's not going to get fixed (and given the age of this bug, it appears that it won't) then at least remove the mp3 pipelines from the default Ubuntu install. A computer should never lie to the user about what's happening. (I just

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-01-06 Thread Tristan Hill
Options available can be seen from gst-inspect-0.10 lamemp3enc: Element Properties: name: The name of the object flags: readable, writable String. Default: null Current: lamemp3enc0 target : Optimize for quality or

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-01-06 Thread Cliff Hall
Thanks. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Tristan Hill s...@saticed.me.uk wrote: Options available can be seen from gst-inspect-0.10 lamemp3enc: Element Properties: name: The name of the object flags: readable, writable String.

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-01-05 Thread Tristan Hill
I'm using a gstreamer pipeline of audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lamemp3enc name=enc quality=0 encoding-engine-quality=2 ! id3v2mux which appears to behave correctly (gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse version 0.10.12-0ubuntu1 on karmic). -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2010-01-05 Thread Cliff Hall
Can you refer me to a source of definitions for these pipeline arguments. For example, I don't know what encoding-engine-quality=2! means. Thanks. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Tristan Hill s...@saticed.me.uk wrote: I'm using a gstreamer pipeline of audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 !

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-11-15 Thread Daniel Harvey
This bug is marked as Fix Released but I don't see it in the karmic or lucid packages. -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-07-18 Thread darkham
Gstreamer staff: please build an official documentation about the syntax of gstreamers pipelines users can't going crazy for customizing their own sound juicer or something like. -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-05-13 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gstreamer Status: New = Fix Released ** Changed in: sound-juicer Status: New = Fix Released -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-05-12 Thread Christian Niemeyer
Thanks everyone, especially @KennoVO for reporting. Hopefully we don't have to wait till gstreamer-0.11 is releases and this will just be included in a minor bugfix release of the lame plugin in gstreamer-0.10. Great news though. :-) -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-05-10 Thread Srik
I'm happy we have contributed (at least just a bit) to solve this problem! :) I hope too it will be fixed soon ;) -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-05-09 Thread KennoVO
Seems that I was was a bit too quick on the trigger with my nobody takes it serious statement. Sebastian Dröge essentially fixed the bug upstream, and I have good hopes that it won't be long before the fix comes to an Ubuntu repository near you :) -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-04-15 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gstreamer Status: Unknown = New -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-04-10 Thread KennoVO
** Also affects: gstreamer via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494528 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-04-09 Thread KennoVO
They rightly marked that bug report resolved because (just like here on launchpad) it was filed as a Juicer bug, while it really is a bug in the gstreamer LAME plugin, not in Juicer. The actual bug that causes all our misery is here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494528 The problem

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-04-09 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: sound-juicer Status: Unknown = New -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-04-06 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: sound-juicer Status: New = Invalid -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-03-28 Thread Srik
I want only to say the the bug that i've posted to bugzilla is now resolved. The understanding or the problem it's far from my informatic knowledges. If you are interested in this bug (like me) you should find interesting the following link: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519882 My

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-03-25 Thread KennoVO
@Christian Niemeyer: I believe vbr-mean-bitrate actually requests ABR encoding, which conflicts with vbr-quality=4, the switch that requests VBR encoding. @tigerdog: Nyquist's theorem dictates that the lowpass frequency needs to be significantly lower than half of the bitrate (44100) to avoid

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-02-22 Thread tigerdog
It seems the only way to get gstreamer to work the way you want is to override every one of its settings with something you want. I was finally able to use this pipeline: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr=4 vbr-quality=0 quality=0 vbr-min-bitrate=32

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-01-26 Thread Srik
I've checked my mp3s encoded with the line i suggested using vlc and i found they are ok. So i've encoded mp3s on an other pc using xubuntu with sound juicer and still i've obtained good vbr mp3s (tried with different min and max bitrate). -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-01-26 Thread Christian Niemeyer
The weird thing is, when you check those vbr mp3s created with sound- juicer in VLC (Ctrl+i there the statistics-tab) the vbr-bitrate only varies around 10 kb/s or even less, up and down. Check at the Input box the values for Input bitrate and Stream bitrate. This is technically VBR, but not the

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-01-24 Thread Christian Niemeyer
Oops, my second pipeline (which got me a 5.5 MB file) is wrong above, a typo. Here's the correct pipeline: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr- quality=4 vbr-min-bitrate=96 vbr-max-bitrate=320 vbr-mean-bitrate=192 vbr=4 quality=0 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux With quality is

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-01-24 Thread Christian Niemeyer
@KennoVo: I tried half a day yesterday trying to get different VBR- mp3-filesizes and came to the same conclusion. Thanks for explaining. For example I tried this: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 quality=2 vbr=4 vbr-quality=3 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux then checking with

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2009-01-03 Thread KennoVO
Things are actually worse than they seem. As a matter of fact, LAME should only be invoked with a handful of simple master options (like -V4), each of which activates myriads of internal encoder parameters. Manually setting those parameters through advanced switches will disrupt the carefully

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-11-18 Thread Zer0Nin3r
To verify that VBR is actually working after you have encoded your files you will need to use a media player that will report back to you real time statistics about what is happening during decoding. Programs like Winamp for windows or the Linux version XMMS (I think the project is dead though)

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-05-15 Thread Srik
I've just upgraded to hardy (8.04) and the default line still doesn't give correct vbr mp3s but the suggested line above still resolves the problem, even changing vbr-max-bitrate to 256 (from 192) gives to me VBR mp3s between 160-256 kbps (checked with nautilus, amarok, easy tag)! I continue to

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-04-06 Thread jorns
My hardware is an IBM Thinkpad R60. Ubuntu 7.10 and Sound Juicer 2.20.1 as mentioned above. What is funny in this, i tried another CD now, and now I have lost the choice to make MP3 again. I will have another look at it later today, if something new shows up I will let you know. -- Sound Juicer

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-04-06 Thread jorns
OK, I have ripping back working. I don't know what made it disappear, maybe some package update? I issued the following command to make it work again: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras Setting in Sound Juicer is as before: (CD Quality, MP3) audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 !

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-04-05 Thread bugmenot
I've had the same experience as Cliff Hall; however I'm using SoundJuicer 2.22 with Ubuntu 8.04 (beta). The xingmux parameter makes no difference to how the CD rips--I still end up with 128 cbr files instead of 160-192 vbr or 160-256 vbr :-( -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-04-05 Thread Cliff Hall
This is really interesting. There are lots of posts about this on Ubuntu Forums. Look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=608034highlight=vbr+mp3 Several of us are getting low quality cbr's no matter what we do with sound juicer. Jorns, however, replied that it worked just fine for

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-23 Thread Srik
Sorry, i had no time during these days. I will check my mp3s and i'll report here the results! -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-23 Thread jorns
I tried the above mentioned sentence: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr=4 vbr- quality=0 vbr-min-bitrate=160 vbr-max-bitrate=192 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux and changed 192 with 256. For me it worked like a charm, it now makes VBR mp3's between 160-256 kbps. My software

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-23 Thread Sebastien Bacher
** Changed in: sound-juicer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) Status: New = Triaged -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-23 Thread Cliff Hall
I wonder how to even begin figuring out what my problem is. On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:17 AM, jorns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the above mentioned sentence: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr=4 vbr- quality=0 vbr-min-bitrate=160 vbr-max-bitrate=192 !

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-23 Thread Cliff Hall
I should have made my plaintive query about what I should do next a reply to all. On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Cliff Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how to even begin figuring out what my problem is. On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:17 AM, jorns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-17 Thread Cliff Hall
I tried it, except I changed vbr-max-bitrate=192 to vbr-max-bitrate=256. The cd ripped just fine, but Amarok reports a bitrate of 128 for all the tracks. This is something that's definitley broken in g-streamer as is well documented in the ubuntu forums, it's definitly not fixed, I don't know how

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-07 Thread Cliff Hall
I'll give it a try as soon as I get a CD to burn. I'm working out of town without my CD's. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks. On 3/5/08, Srik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the functional line: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr=4 vbr-quality=0

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-05 Thread Srik
Forwarded. They provided a solution: adding the xingmux parameter to the Pipeline Gstreamer. I think this parameter should be inserted by default in the profile for cd-quality mp3!!! -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-05 Thread Cliff Hall
Does that work for you? Are you using vbr? I've tried it and it didn't work for me. On 3/5/08, Srik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forwarded. They provided a solution: adding the xingmux parameter to the Pipeline Gstreamer. I think this parameter should be inserted by default in the profile for

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-05 Thread Srik
This is the functional line: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr=4 vbr-quality=0 vbr-min-bitrate=160 vbr-max-bitrate=192 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux I've specified to use the new algorithm (vbr=4) and i've setted min and max bitrate. Try this! -- Sound Juicer - MP3

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-03 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: sound-juicer Status: Unknown = New -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-03-02 Thread Srik
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #519882 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519882 ** Also affects: sound-juicer via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519882 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-02-29 Thread Srik
Same problem using the sound recorder (that uses the same sound profiles of soundjuicer). -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-02-29 Thread Pedro Villavicencio
May you forward it upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org since you're facing the issue? I can't reproduce it here. You can look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME for filing instructions. thanks in advance. ** Changed in: sound-juicer (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- Sound

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-02-27 Thread Cliff Hall
I have had the same experience Srik describes. This has been batted around for months on the forums at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=608034highlight=vbr+mp3. VBR mp3 encoding just doesn't work in sound juicer. I have the same problem that Srik has in that I only have one cd/dvd drive

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-02-25 Thread Pedro Villavicencio
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-02-25 Thread Srik
Having only one cd-dvd reader on my pc, i don't think i could test the extraction and encoding of cd audio track in mp3 while using the live cd! May i use a virtual machine? Is there no one that could test this bug? -- Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

[Bug 195483] Re: Sound Juicer - MP3 quality doesn't change

2008-02-25 Thread Srik
* I tried to add the vbr=(0,2,3,4) parameter and the here are the results: - vbr=0 I obtain the same file with CBR 128 kbps (vbr=0 stands for no vbr!) - vbr=2 I obtain a 32 kbps CBR file with incorrect total lenght (7:28 instead of 1:42) (vbr=2 stands for use the old algorithm) - vbr=3 I